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The ghost of Aileen Wuornos still lingers at The Last Resort – the Florida biker bar where the serial killer drank her final beer before her arrest more than three decades ago.

Her framed mugshot hangs behind the bar. Her face appears on T-shirts and bottles of hot sauce. A makeshift shrine of her painted portrait lists the men she murdered and the bar’s slogan: “Home of ice cold beer and killer women.”

The story of Aileen Wuornos has long been the stuff of pulp lore, fictionalized and dramatized for TV and film multiple times, most famously by Charlize Theron, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of the killer in the 2003 movie Monster.

And it’s a fascination with Wuornos, America’s most notorious female serial killer, that continues to attract people to the Port Orange bar from all over the world.

Owner Al Bulling, who’s run the bar for 33 years, knew her well.

open image in gallery Aileen Wuornos was arrested at The Last Resort biker bar in Port Orange, Florida in January 1991 ( Alan Campbell )

“She wanted to be remembered and keep the memory going,” Bulling told the Daytona Beach News-Journal. “Well, we’ll keep it going for her.”

Wuornos was a sex worker in Florida who carried out the fatal shootings of at